Katherine Mackinnon
@kamack.bsky.social
Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
@nigella.bsky.social Nigella thanks for your outstanding chocolate pistachio fudge recipe - I made loads of it this year and handed it out to all my pals, colleagues, the guys in the paper shop etc. Universally enjoyed. Thanks for all you do and hope you have a smashing Christmas 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
@nigella.bsky.social Nigella thanks for your outstanding chocolate pistachio fudge recipe - I made loads of it this year and handed it out to all my pals, colleagues, the guys in the paper shop etc. Universally enjoyed. Thanks for all you do and hope you have a smashing Christmas 🎄
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Merry Christmas to the two high vis clad lads sitting in their work van, blasting Wonderful Christmas time & passing a whole huge panettone back & forth, taking bites out of it as if it was a big burger
December 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Merry Christmas to the two high vis clad lads sitting in their work van, blasting Wonderful Christmas time & passing a whole huge panettone back & forth, taking bites out of it as if it was a big burger
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Coming up Buchanan Street, quickly, on a sharp winter evening
a young man and two girls, under the Christmas lights…
—Edwin Morgan, “Trio”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry #Christmas #Glasgow
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
a young man and two girls, under the Christmas lights…
—Edwin Morgan, “Trio”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry #Christmas #Glasgow
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
December 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Coming up Buchanan Street, quickly, on a sharp winter evening
a young man and two girls, under the Christmas lights…
—Edwin Morgan, “Trio”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry #Christmas #Glasgow
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
a young man and two girls, under the Christmas lights…
—Edwin Morgan, “Trio”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry #Christmas #Glasgow
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
Massive thanks to everyone who helped share this fundraiser and bought @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social vouchers for 2026 - we raised a total of £2,440 for Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen which is brilliant!
Just picked up a reprint of the vouchers from Good Press and they look class!
December 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Massive thanks to everyone who helped share this fundraiser and bought @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social vouchers for 2026 - we raised a total of £2,440 for Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen which is brilliant!
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The treatment of the Filton24, and the hunger strikers in particular, is astonishingly cruel and unjust. One young man I know is in jail pending trial in *2027*. The mental toll on the accused and their families is despicable.
Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial.
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
December 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The treatment of the Filton24, and the hunger strikers in particular, is astonishingly cruel and unjust. One young man I know is in jail pending trial in *2027*. The mental toll on the accused and their families is despicable.
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I've watched this live stream every year since it started and it's wonderful. #AnGhrianstad
The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
December 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I've watched this live stream every year since it started and it's wonderful. #AnGhrianstad
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#OtD 18 Dec 1974 the radical Danish Solvognen theatre group, dressed as Santas, provoked a near-riot in the Magasin department store when they gave out free toys from the shelves to children. When they were arrested by police, the children began to cry www.tiktok.com/@workingclas...
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
#OtD 18 Dec 1974 the radical Danish Solvognen theatre group, dressed as Santas, provoked a near-riot in the Magasin department store when they gave out free toys from the shelves to children. When they were arrested by police, the children began to cry www.tiktok.com/@workingclas...
Important milestone as a parent: informed by my son at 7:30pm that he was to have made a model volcano for tomorrow. Feel like this is very respectable under the circumstances but then he refused to even take it into school because “it’s too wee” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Important milestone as a parent: informed by my son at 7:30pm that he was to have made a model volcano for tomorrow. Feel like this is very respectable under the circumstances but then he refused to even take it into school because “it’s too wee” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The eight Palestine Action hunger strikers have now been held without trial for months, and three have been hospitalised. Here's a toolkit with 11 proposed actions you can take to support them.
Toolkit for UK Hunger Strikers
docs.google.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The eight Palestine Action hunger strikers have now been held without trial for months, and three have been hospitalised. Here's a toolkit with 11 proposed actions you can take to support them.
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A thread on how I bought an old book about a place I am also writing a book about, and became the unsuspecting owner of a rare 19th #Glasgow artefact, connected with one of Glasgow’s most picturesque bridges!
December 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A thread on how I bought an old book about a place I am also writing a book about, and became the unsuspecting owner of a rare 19th #Glasgow artefact, connected with one of Glasgow’s most picturesque bridges!
We have raised over £2,000 with these vouchers, how good is that! Last chance to nab one in time for xmas Glaswegians, order by tomorrow to make out last post run on 17th Dec
Vouchers now on sale for @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social walking tours next year - raising funds for Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen. Vouchers are £20 and are redeemable on all of our standard tours which'll run weekly Apr-Oct in 2026 radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com/product/rgt-...
RGT tour voucher - winter fundraiser
Support our winter fundraiser, raising funds for Gaza Soup Kitchen and Glasgow City Mission. Perfect gift for those hard-to-buy-for comrades! Each...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We have raised over £2,000 with these vouchers, how good is that! Last chance to nab one in time for xmas Glaswegians, order by tomorrow to make out last post run on 17th Dec
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#FrogFriday 🐸:
J. Martin Pollock
“I AM AT THE ZOO BRING ME A FLY.” 1923
Lithograph in colours, backed on linen, 40 x 25 in. (102 x 64 cm)
London Underground / London Zoo
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...
J. Martin Pollock
“I AM AT THE ZOO BRING ME A FLY.” 1923
Lithograph in colours, backed on linen, 40 x 25 in. (102 x 64 cm)
London Underground / London Zoo
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...
December 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
#FrogFriday 🐸:
J. Martin Pollock
“I AM AT THE ZOO BRING ME A FLY.” 1923
Lithograph in colours, backed on linen, 40 x 25 in. (102 x 64 cm)
London Underground / London Zoo
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...
J. Martin Pollock
“I AM AT THE ZOO BRING ME A FLY.” 1923
Lithograph in colours, backed on linen, 40 x 25 in. (102 x 64 cm)
London Underground / London Zoo
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...
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I write a newspaper column about Scottish history, historians and heritage.
I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?
I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I write a newspaper column about Scottish history, historians and heritage.
I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?
I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?
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‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’ 💀
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’ 💀
Credit where credit’s due, this is great from Sarwar
December 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Credit where credit’s due, this is great from Sarwar
Glasgow library carpet fans! You might like these new badges. Why not get a wee voucher for a 2026 @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social tour while you're at it? All voucher sales go to support the vital work of Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com/product/mitc...
Mitchell Library carpet badges
Set of four 38mm badges celebrating the iconic Mitchell Library carpets. These legendary carpets were commissioned in 1978 from the firm Hugh...
radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
My transcription win of the day is correctly working out a (to me) highly unusual surname. Gárate Ossandón! I'm a bit smug about interviews with Spanish speakers because I'm like, oh I can HEAR the names much better than if they are in Farsi or Urdu. But Gárate Ossandón was hard work!
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My transcription win of the day is correctly working out a (to me) highly unusual surname. Gárate Ossandón! I'm a bit smug about interviews with Spanish speakers because I'm like, oh I can HEAR the names much better than if they are in Farsi or Urdu. But Gárate Ossandón was hard work!
Here see if any of you need to (manually) transcribe something, oTranscribe is the most excellent free tool. You can control the audio via the keyboard, it does you time stamps, it's open source. Incredibly useful otranscribe.com
oTranscribe
A free HTML5 app to take the pain out of transcribing interviews. Useful for journalists, academics and anyone else transcribing audio. And it's open source, too.
otranscribe.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Here see if any of you need to (manually) transcribe something, oTranscribe is the most excellent free tool. You can control the audio via the keyboard, it does you time stamps, it's open source. Incredibly useful otranscribe.com
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We have nearly 800 people signed up for tomorrow's webinar #12DaysofACAB
It's not too late to sign up for 'Basic Security in a Digital Age', a workshop on how we keep ourselves and each other safe when organising online, organised with Digital Self-Defence Collective www.eventbrite.com/e/basic-secu... Hundreds have registered, why not join them! #12DaysofACAB
Basic Security in a Digital Age
In the face of surveillance from police and far-right groups, how do we keep ourselves and each other safe when organising online?
www.eventbrite.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We have nearly 800 people signed up for tomorrow's webinar #12DaysofACAB
This is an incredible resource of interest to historians, public heath folk, Glasgow nerds and many many more!
📣 New GCPH Publication for Glasgow 850!
From Provand's Lordship to the Red Road Flats, the provision of clean water to the 1915 rent strikes & this year's Housing (Scotland) Bill, this timeline shines a light on events that shaped Glasgow's health www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
From Provand's Lordship to the Red Road Flats, the provision of clean water to the 1915 rent strikes & this year's Housing (Scotland) Bill, this timeline shines a light on events that shaped Glasgow's health www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
850 years of change – A timeline of Glasgow’s health history from 1175 to 2025
850 years of change – A timeline of Glasgow’s health history from 1175 to 2025
www.gcph.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is an incredible resource of interest to historians, public heath folk, Glasgow nerds and many many more!
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Tonight! I’ll be talking about my article ‘Where is the left?’ & all things radical spaces and political organising
7pm at the Third Eye Bar, inside the CCA - hope to see you there!
7pm at the Third Eye Bar, inside the CCA - hope to see you there!
December 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Tonight! I’ll be talking about my article ‘Where is the left?’ & all things radical spaces and political organising
7pm at the Third Eye Bar, inside the CCA - hope to see you there!
7pm at the Third Eye Bar, inside the CCA - hope to see you there!
Glasgow library carpet fans! You might like these new badges. Why not get a wee voucher for a 2026 @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social tour while you're at it? All voucher sales go to support the vital work of Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com/product/mitc...
Mitchell Library carpet badges
Set of four 38mm badges celebrating the iconic Mitchell Library carpets. These legendary carpets were commissioned in 1978 from the firm Hugh...
radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Glasgow library carpet fans! You might like these new badges. Why not get a wee voucher for a 2026 @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social tour while you're at it? All voucher sales go to support the vital work of Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com/product/mitc...
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Loch Glass, Highlands.
Pic: IG/merlins_mind
Pic: IG/merlins_mind
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Loch Glass, Highlands.
Pic: IG/merlins_mind
Pic: IG/merlins_mind
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“Tablet is a sort of crystalline fudge made from sugar, condensed milk, more milk, butter, more sugar and – that might be all, actually. It is an alchemical procedure, not a recipe.”
—Don Paterson on tablet, in his memoir TOY FIGHTS (Faber, 2023)
#memoir #tablet
💙📚
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
—Don Paterson on tablet, in his memoir TOY FIGHTS (Faber, 2023)
#memoir #tablet
💙📚
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Tablet is a sort of crystalline fudge made from sugar, condensed milk, more milk, butter, more sugar and – that might be all, actually. It is an alchemical procedure, not a recipe.”
—Don Paterson on tablet, in his memoir TOY FIGHTS (Faber, 2023)
#memoir #tablet
💙📚
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
—Don Paterson on tablet, in his memoir TOY FIGHTS (Faber, 2023)
#memoir #tablet
💙📚
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...